Back to France. Round 3.

OK SO, Sept 12, 2012.  Flight LAX to Toulouse (layover in London).  Nihal, my new flatmate was lovely enough to pick me up from the airport and show me to my new place, where I live with her and Selin.  Unfortunately, I had to leave a day later for a quick vacation before the start of school on October 1st, so I would have to wait to get to know them.

I went to Paris for a week with Mike.  We stayed at my friend Antoine's place and explored the city.  He lives in the 18th with his flatmate Sophie.  It was the Jour du Patrimoine that weekend, so we were able to visit the Senate and Congress and Napoleon's tomb for free.  Except for said weekend, the public is not allowed into the Senate/government buildings.  We also went to Versailles and the Impressionist museum etc

We met at a café in my faorite park, Buttes Chaumont

He lives on the 4th floor

Musée d'Orsay

Mike loved the medieval armor museum

Napoleon's tomb

Pretty majestic tomb, Napoleon

Pere Lachaise

Montmartre

Versailles

Every time I've been to Versailles, there's a super weird art exhibition inside.

After Paris, Mike had to go back to start school in Belgium, and I went off to London (on teh 20th) to visit Dan, Ant, Charlotte and crew !  It was super fun.  Lots of hanging out and movies, but Ant and I also got to see Lucy Rose live at a record shop, releasing her new album...aaand we all went to see Fake Blood live (dj), which was amazing.  It was a great week of which I have zero photo evidence because 1) I don't have a camera and 2) we forgot to take pictures.

After London it was off to Biarritz on the 27th to visit KristenTranny!  It was a big surf competition that weekend at Hossegar so there were a lot of surfers in town.  We went to the beach, ate delicious pizza and went to the big Quicksilver concert (Kristen was working for Quicksilver).  We had never heard of the performers, but were thoroughly impressed by The Shoes and Birdy Nam Nam. Great weekend, of which there are pictures somehwere, but I can't find them.  Tant pis.

I had my first day at work on Oct 1st, so I got back to Toulouse on the 30th, ready to start.